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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER X
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The corn-market of Stockholm is insignificant.
The principal buildings besides those already enumerated are, the bank, the mint, the guard-house, the palace of the crown-prince, the theatre, &c.

The latter is interesting, partly because Gustavus III.

was shot in it.

He fell on the stage, while a grand masquerade was taking place, for which the theatre had been changed into a ball-room.

The king was shot by a mask, and died in a few hours.
There is not a representation in the theatre every night; and on the one evening of performance during my visit a festival was to be celebrated in the hall of antiquities.


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